Polly Fordyce

At Velocity, they're applying this new macroscope for high time resolution enzyme kinetics assays in microfluidic devices, speeding the pace of drug discovery. Check out their new paper describing these advances!

Large field of view fluorescence imaging of microfluidic devices with a tandem-lens macroscope Microfluidic devices enable high-throughput sample processing with remarkable parallelization and miniaturization. While fluorescence microscopy provides a convenient method for reading out signal fro...

Microscopy usually requires a tradeoff between field of view & resolution. What if you want both? Velocity Bio co-founders Daniel Mokhtari & Ali Lashkaripour built a 'macroscope' that images large fields of view (34x34 mm) at high resolution (~ 3 µm) & at lower cost.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)

Faculty Recruitment

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Only 2 days to go! Register and join us to hear these amazing talks!

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

We are big fans of your Elk-1 work!

Thank you so much for your kind words! We are finishing up revision experiments now and hoping it’s published soon :)

AIMBE prepared a doc summarizing information about the number of departments that have reduced student enrollment for next year. This doesn’t have the number of slots and how it changed but still confirms a lot of the trends you have been writing about: aimbe.org/wp-content/u...

"meaningful and innovative health research has never flourished amid constraints on language and free exchange of ideas"

This is a great piece highlighting the many ways that federal investment in science benefits society.

Special thanks to Bianca Caminada for coordinating my visit and to all of the speakers and presenters for the amazing science :)

Thank you to the student organizing committee for a great Frontiers in Biophysics meeting at UBC!

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%

43% cut to dollar amount awarded in federal research grants by NIH in Trump ‘26 budget. 1800 fewer grants. The 27 ICs will be restructured into 8.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...

‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.

While we are watching the damage here, a far away land has reached a tipping point.

More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science.

🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Powerful new work! Kudos to the authors for making it easy to explore the code ❤️

Check out this fantastic conference in Boston, June 23, featuring the Ono Pharma Awardees in chemical biology, registration open now!

Thank you so much Isabelle! This is fantastic :)

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy, Developed in Just Six Months The first on-demand CRISPR therapy for an infant with a rare metabolic disease developed by the IGI and collaborators around the world.

This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on!

innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...

Read more about the impact for the program and perspectives from past speakers in this Stanford Engineering Science and Technology article: engineering.stanford.edu/news/next-ge... (3/3)

Selected speakers will present live-streamed talks at this year's virtual Symposium on September 11, 2025. Prior to the event, speakers will be paired 1:1 with faculty to get general career advice and advice specific to the academic job market. (2/3)

Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Our papers, device designs, and protocols are used by biotech companies every day. Basic science is not a luxury - federal funding drives the very earliest R&D that powers biotech and trains the next generation of scientists (3/3). #WithoutNSF

NSF now funds my lab to understand how mutations to proteins and DNA change gene expression and learn to design new therapies. Federal funding has allowed me to train 26 new researchers, file 14 patents, write 71 papers, and launch a startup (2/3).

I was an NSF-funded undergraduate who learned how to code by analyzing high energy physics data. Then I was an NSF-funded graduate student studying how kinesin molecules are the most efficient motors ever known (1/3).